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Crain’s Detroit seeks a breaking news reporter

Crain’s Detroit Business is hiring a highly motivated news enthusiast with a digital-first mindset. This aggressive and assertive team journalists will:

  • Supplement core beat coverage by producing smart and serious news intelligence, largely through mining press releases, public records, news conferences, and other local and national media sources.
  • Cover big breaking news in the field and through smart aggregation of other platforms and sources.
  • Maintain Crain’s mission and sensibility, which is to produce smart and serious news intelligence for business and political leaders throughout southeast Michigan.
  • Other assignments as needed.

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Public Policy or related field
  • Minimum of one year of professional experience, including paid and non-paid internships in a newsroom.
  • An enthusiasm for learning and adapting to constant change.
  • An ability to work with others, under pressure, in a spirit of generosity.
  • A self-starter and independent thinker.
  • Strong grammatical skills, with a demonstrated ability to edit and self-edit.
  • Demonstrated experience writing and/or editing for a publication or platform.
  • A demonstrated ability to work across platforms, including video, photo and audio.
  • A demonstrated involvement and prowess in social media, including using it for both sourcing and reporting, and as a platform for your own brand.
  • Online / digital portfolio showcasing work experience and work samples

Preferences

  • Experience with databases, visualization tools and web design.
  • Knowledge of HTML.
  • Demonstrated ability to write clearly about complex issues and ideas.

To apply, go here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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